Bela Bart¢k Studies in Ethnomusicology
Bela Bart¢k Studies in Ethnomusicology

Author: Bäla Bart¢k

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780803242470

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Composer, folklorist, and performer Béla Bartók (1881–1945) is internationally renowned as one of the most important and influential musicians of the twentieth century. Throughout his life he wrote lectures and essays that dealt with virtually every aspect of East European folk music. Many of those essays, previously scattered in specialist journals in four different languages, are collected here for the first time. All are concerned with that branch of musicology within which Bartók was most influential, and for which he is best known: research into folk music, or ethnomusicology. The volume includes a preface by editor Benjamin Suchoff, a leading expert on Bartók’s music and writings. Suchoff examines Bartók’s developing views on the folk-music traditions of Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and the Arab world.

Bartók for Piano
Bartók for Piano

Author: David Yeomans

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2000-06-22

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780253213839

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" . . . detailed and thorough . . . a wealth of information . . . David Yeomans deserves our thanks for a job exceedingly well done." —American Music Teacher " . . . a must for pianists . . . " —American Reference Book Annual "David Yeomans's study is certainly to be recommended for all good music libraries, pianists and students of Bartók." —The Music Review "Although there are currently more than 15 books in print about composer Béla Bartók, this short volume is unique in its focus on his complete oeuvre for solo piano. . . . Recommended for pianists, piano teachers, and students from lower-division undergraduate level and above." —Choice " . . . the entire book is indispensable for any of us before we play another Bartók piece." —Clavier "This work collects in one place an enormous number of 'facts' about the piano music of Bartók . . . for planning concerts and student repertoire, and as a survey of an important body of 20th-century music, this listing is valuable." —Library Journal This chronological listing of more than 400 pieces and movements presents in convenient form essential information about each of Bartók's solo piano works, including its various editions, timing, level of difficulty, pertinent remarks by the composer, and bibliographical references to it.

Pianists Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature
Pianists Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature

Author: Jane Magrath

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 9781457438974

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This reference book is an invaluable resource for teachers, students and performers for evaluating and selecting piano solo literature. Concise and thoroughly researched, thousands of works, from the Baroque through the Contemporary periods, have been graded and evaluated in detail. Includes an alphabetical list of composers, explanations of works and much more.

The Music of Béla Bartók
The Music of Béla Bartók

Author: Elliott Antokoletz

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780520067479

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The basic principles of progression and the means by which tonality is established in Bartók's music remain problematical to many theorists. Elliott Antokoletz here demonstrates that the remarkable continuity of style in Bartók's evolution is founded upon an all-encompassing system of pitch relations in which one can draw together the diverse pitch formations in his music under one unified set of principles.

Bartók's Mikrokosmos
Bartók's Mikrokosmos

Author: Benjamin Suchoff

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2004-10-21

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1461656729

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Now available in paperback! Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos is a collection of 153 pieces for piano designed by the composer as a series graded according to difficulty. The pieces were written between 1926 and 1939, and have become by far the best-known series of teaching pieces by a major composer in the twentieth century. This in-depth study investigates Bartók's Mikrokosmos from three main viewpoints: the genesis of the pieces, their pedagogical value, and their stylistic qualities. The book is intended for piano teachers, students, and performers as well as anyone interested in Bartók's life and work as pianist, educator, and composer. Cloth originally published in 2002 under ISBN 0-8108-4427-3.

The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm
The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm

Author: Russell Hartenberger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-09-24

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1108492924

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An exploration of rhythm and the richness of musical time from the perspective of performers, composers, analysts, and listeners.

Bartók and the Piano
Bartók and the Piano

Author: Barbara Nissman

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13:

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The Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945) studied the piano with a pupil of Franz Liszt and was himself an outstanding pianist. He composed over 300 pieces for the piano, many of which belong in the standard repertory of most students and professional pianists. Yet this book is the first attempt to come to grips with his entire piano output from the perspective of the performer as distinct from that of the music historian, biographer, or analyst. Pianist Barbara Nissman has made a close study of the works in the course of preparing a complete recording of them, and here offers her insights and suggestions for interpretation and performance. Paying particular attention to the Piano Sonata of 1926, the suite Out of Doors, and the three piano concertos, she looks at Bartók's other works in chapters on folk music, the composer as teacher, and juvenilia. She includes a discography of Bartók's own recordings, an annotated bibliography, and a CD containing her own recordings of selected works, including the little-known early sonata of 1898.

The Musician's Guide to Fundamentals
The Musician's Guide to Fundamentals

Author: Jane Piper Clendinning

Publisher:

Published: 2018-07

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780393639186

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Reorganized and streamlined, the third edition of The Musician's Guide to Fundamentals features a new, laser focus on the core concepts of music fundamentals. The text features NEW online resources--including formative quizzes and a self-grading workbook--while retaining the Musician's Guide's emphasis on real music from Bach to Broadway, Mozart to Katy Perry.